20 JANUARY 1872, Page 1
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Queen is to go in State to St. Paul's on as early a day as can be fixed after the 20th of February, to return thanks for the recovery of the Prince of Wales; and of course the Prince him- self will attend. Such State occasions are hardly those on which the most heartfelt thanks of the persons principally concerned are likely to be felt and expressed; but as the Queen and her son are great public personages, there seems to be no reason why they should not express, by a formal and public act, a thankfulness which they share with the nation, and which is greatly enhanced by the strength of the national feeling displayed.
